bshole
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C is a simple (in terms of language features) and elegant language. What’s even more remarkable is that it hasn’t really changed much in 40 years, yet it continues to dominate language usage statistics.
Pretty much every operating system kernel and kernel mode device driver is written in C. Whatever you’re reading this on, it's almost certain some part of that chain was written in C. Also any language worth a damn can speak the C ABI.
One simply cannot understate how important this language has been. What the transistor did for hardware, C did for software.
And what did the people who invented get from it? Butkus. It constantly amazes me how something of such perfection never got monetized by its inventors.
I do embedded programming and C is still the most popular programming language for embedded systems.